The center of rocket science has always been Huntsville, Alabama. Soon, Space Force will join the rocket scientists. Actually, that makes perfect sense.

On Tuesday, Hot Air reported:

Space Force should have always been in Huntsville with the rest of the rocket scientists, and now, at long last, it will be.

It has always made sense, which is why it was the no-brainer choice for its home originally. The proximity to so many of NASA’s extended agencies already physically in Huntsville, many of them safe and sound behind the guarded walls of Redstone Arsenal. The Marshall Space Flight Center, which is NASA’s ‘lead center for the development of rocket propulsion systems and technologies,’ is way cool to drive past. I had no idea it was up there on my first visit to Huntsville.

…Not only because of what was already in the area, contractor-wise and NASA assets, but because the location is perfect. Right on I-65, a centrally located north-south main interstate, just a short run to the Port of Mobile for trucked-in, shipped, or rail parts. Easy access to the Houston Space Center and any tie-ins with SpaceX that might be in current development. 

If they need to head east to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, they turn left when they hit I-10 instead of right, and off they go. Or, for that matter, if they have to send folks down to work with Central Command in Tampa. It’s all within a day’s drive – granted, a long one, but the most important feature of Huntsville is, as we always say, ‘You can get there from here.‘

Switching the Space Force headquarters to Colorado Springs was a bitter, vindictive political move by the incoming Biden administration to pull a justifiable defense placement asset away from a red voting state and hand it off to a blue one. 

The article notes:

For the ignorant and uninitiated, Huntsville, AL is ‘Rocket City,’ birthed by the very man who started it all for the United States. Werner Von Braun even had the foresight to ensure that a museum would be founded to preserve and document the space history being made in Huntsville.

I wonder how much money this will save the government in travel expenses and other expenses that are the result of putting the Space Force headquarters in Colorado.

This is another step toward making the government cost efficient. The government will probably never be cost efficient, but at least we can make steps in that direction.